Resource 84: The Minute Paper

 Please answer each question in 1 or 2 sentences:
 

 1) What was the most useful or meaningful
     thing you learned during this session?

 2) What question(s) remain uppermost in your
   mind as we end this session?

Reference:  Angelo, T. A. & Cross, K. P. Classroom Assessment Techniques:  A Handbook
 for College Teachers, 2nd edition.  San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993, pp. 148-153.
 

The "Muddiest" Point*
 

3) What was the "muddiest" point in this session?
 (In other words, what was least clear to you?)

* This Classroom Assessment Technique was developed by Dr. Frederick Mosteller,
a distinguished professor of statistics at Harvard University.  For a detailed account of its development and use, see his article, The "Muddiest Point in the Lecture" as a Feedback Device in On Teaching and Learning:  The Journal of the Harvard-Danforth Center, Vol. 3, April 1989, pp. 10-21.

Reference:  Angelo, T. A. & Cross, K. P.  Classroom Assessment Techniques:  A Handbook
 for College Teachers, 2nd edition.  San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993, pp. 154-158.